Virgin of the Rosary

painting by Murillo

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The Virgin of the Rosary is an early painting by the Spanish Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, created around 1642. This work reflects the style of his teacher, Juan del Castillo, blending 16th-century Italian Mannerism with Flemish realism. It is one of Murillo's initial pieces, predating his later, more characteristic "vaporous" style that emerged after his visit to Madrid and exposure to artists like Titian and Rubens. Murillo was a prominent religious painter in 17th-century Spain, known for his idealized depictions, often for religious orders and confraternities.1

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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
…Murillo’s earliest works is the Virgin of the Rosary (c. 1642). In the vestigial style of his artistically conservative Sevillian master, Juan del Castillo, this early work combines 16th-century Italian Mannerism and Flemish realism. The 11 paintings that originally hung in the small cloister of San Francisco in Sevilla—e.g., the…
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…Murillo’s earliest works is the Virgin of the Rosary (c. 1642). In the vestigial style of his artistically conservative Sevillian master, Juan del Castillo, this early work combines 16th-century Italian Mannerism and Flemish realism. The 11 paintings that originally hung in the small cloister of San Francisco in Sevilla—e.g., the…
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